The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Saint Helena) Order 1998

Jurisdiction and effect of judgments.

177.—(1) Paragraph (d) of section 1(1) of the Administration of Justice Act 1956 as applied in Saint Helena by the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Saint Helena and its Dependencies) Order 1969(1) shall be construed as extending to any claim in respect of a liability falling under this Chapter.

(2) Where in accordance with rules of court made for the purposes of this subsection the Fund has been given notice of proceedings brought against an owner or guarantor in respect of liability under section 153, any judgment given in the proceedings shall, after it has become final and enforceable, become binding upon the Fund in the sense that the facts and evidence in the judgment may not be disputed by the Fund even if the Fund has not intervened in the proceedings.

(3) Where a person incurs a liability under the law of a Fund Convention country corresponding to Chapter III of this Part for damage which is partly in the territory of Saint Helena, subsection (2) above shall, for the purpose of proceedings under this Chapter, apply with any necessary modifications to a judgment in proceedings under that law of the said country.

(4) Subject to subsection (5) below, the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance 1961(2) shall apply, whether or not it would so apply apart from this subsection, to any judgement given by a court in a Fund Convention country to enforce a claim in respect of liability incurred under any provision corresponding to section 175; and in its application to such a judgment the said Ordinance shall have effect with the omission of subsections (2) and (3) of section 6 of that Ordinance.

(5) No steps shall be taken to enforce such a judgment unless and until the court in which it is registered under the said Ordinance gives leave to enforce it; and—

(a) that leave shall not be given unless and until the Fund notifies the court either that the amount of the claim is not to be reduced under paragraph 4 of Article 4 of the Fund Convention (as set out in Part I of Schedule 5) or that it is to be reduced to a specified amount; and

(b) in the latter case, the judgment shall be enforceable only for the reduced amount.

(1)

S.I. 1969/858.

(2)

Laws of the Saint Helena, No 7 of 1961.